Senior Advisor

vor 1 Woche


Melbourne, Österreich Department of Education & Training, Victoria Vollzeit

Job posted: 15/10/2024The Senior Advisor - Mental Health and Wellbeing provides empathetic advice, coordinates mental health support programs, including the Early Intervention program and the EWSS, conducts in-person school visits, and assists in managing the EWRT triage function and on-call roster for staff mental health support.Please note there are 2 positions available.About the DepartmentThe department provides a wide range of learning and development support and services. The department provides policy leadership, plans for the future of education in Victoria and leads key cross-sector collaboration. The department plays an important system steward role by providing support, guidance, oversight and assurance across early childhood and school education systems, as well as directly providing school education and 50 new early learning centres.About the DivisionThe Employee Safety, Wellbeing and Inclusion Division (ESWID) is committed to the Department's vision to create healthy and safe working and learning environments for Department employees to thrive and succeed.ESWID performs its functions through five Branches that span prevention, response and recovery, as well as strategy, advice and support. These teams adopt a holistic approach for supporting the health, safety and wellbeing of our workforce across schools, central and regional offices. This includes Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) and Workers' Compensation policy advice and support, for both physical and psychosocial wellbeing.The objectives of the Division are to:promote positive wellbeing in learning and working environmentsprevent against known and expected risks to health, safety and wellbeingrespond swiftly and effectively to manage potential issues as they emerge and prevent injuriessupport employees to recover from injury and illness, and return to work.About the RoleThe Employee Wellbeing Response Team leads the coordination of early response mental health and wellbeing supports for school staff in significant distress and at risk of injury. The team provides advice and coordination to school leaders and people managers to support them to respond to early-onset health and wellbeing risk indicators to prevent them from escalating, primarily through the Employee Wellbeing Support Services (EWSS). This includes referral to, and/or coordination of, four key programs under the EWSS:Crisis Counselling (emergency counselling) is available 24 hours a day, 7 days per week by phone.Rapid Contact Calls which are also a rapid form of support and can be actioned within an hour of being requested in most cases.Planned Workplace support for provision of on-site counselling to school staff at school sites.Employee Wellbeing Support Services where staff members can also access and make appointments for counselling with less urgency.The EWRT also provides specialist support in response to serious employee injury and complex safety incidents. The Response Team support is sometimes required out of hours, including on public holidays and weekends. To ensure continuity of service, The Response Team has established a standby roster. A VPS5 or VPS6 team member will be rostered on standby on weekends and public holidays to respond to emergencies or critical incidents involving DE staff, students or property.A member of the Employee Wellbeing Response Team (Response Team) attends Incident Management Team (IMT) stand up meetings in response to critical incidents that impact on schools and corporate workplaces. The IMT is usually coordinated by the Executive Director or Director, Security and Emergency Management (SEMD) or their delegate.Working as part of the Employee Wellbeing Response Team, the Senior Advisor - Mental Health and Wellbeing will:provide high quality, empathic and responsive advice to school leaders and people managers about the mental health supports available under the department's EWSS and other programs, and provide coordination and support to enable those services to be deployed to staff in needsupport effective deployment of the Early Intervention program, which is aimed at providing support to staff with specialised and escalated mental health needsoperationalise other mental health and wellbeing programs, including in the Department's EWSSprovide schools with regular in-person visits to support the coordination of services to support staff psychosocial recovery.support the EWRT eduSafe Plus triage function and support the Manager – Employee Wellbeing and Response Team with the management of the on-call roster in accordance with relevant policy and legislation. This role will also be required to be on-call from time to time.Due to the responsive nature of this role, some state-wide travel will be required for this role, advance notice will be provided.The position will report to the Manager – Employee Wellbeing Response Team.Qualifications and ExperienceEssential: Relevant qualification in mental health, allied health, OHS, education or related field.Essential: Experience working in mental health, education and/or OHS.Further InformationFor more details regarding this position please see attached position description for the capabilities to address in application.Applicants are asked to provide a statement of no more than two pages against the Key Selection Criteria including addressing the essential qualifications and experience listed.The department values diversity and inclusion in all forms - gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQ+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. For more information about our work, working for the Department, diversity and inclusion, and our employment conditions visit the Department website and our Diversity and Inclusion page.Applicants requiring adjustments can contact the nominated contact person.Information about the Department of Education's operations and employment conditions can be located at www.education.vic.gov.au.Preferred applicants may be required to complete a police check and may be subject to other pre-employment checks. Information provided to the Department of Education will be treated in the strictest confidence.Please let us know via phone or email if you require any adjustments to ensure your full participation in the recruitment process or if you need the ad or any attachments in an accessible format (e.g large print) due to any viewing difficulties or other accessibility requirements.Applications close 11:59pm on Tuesday 29th October, 2024Damian Atherton | ******
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